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FIG. III. 

 PHAL^ENA PROFANANA. 



BROWN-TU FTED TORTRIX-MOTH. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings fiifcous grey, with a dark tufted dot in the middle. 



Tortuix Pkofanana: alis cinereis: punclo medio fufco. Fabr. 

 Ent. Si/ji. T. 3. p. 2. 268. fp. 111. 



A new fpecies, described by Fabricius as a native of this country, 

 from a fpecimen in the cabinet of Mr. Francillon. Our infect, 

 which was taken in Kent, is of the fame fpecies precifely, but only 

 of a darker colour. Befides the confpicuous elevated hairy tuft in 

 the middle of the wing, there are feveral minute elevated dots in the 

 riiik contiguous to it, as Fabricius mentions. The anterior wings 

 have a rich hlky glols, the lower ones are browniih, and imma- 

 culate. 



This, we believe, to be one of the rarer! Britiih fpecies of that 

 particular family of Tortrices known among Englifh collectors by 

 the denomination of Button-wing moths, a term alluding to the 

 lmall fafciculi, tufts, or fcabrous elevations, which appear on the 

 anterior wings of fome few fpecies of the Tortrix tribe of Phalaena. 

 It is alfo an infect of no very inconhderable magnitude, as will ap- 

 pear from the fmaller figure fhewn at number 3 in the oppohte 

 plate, which reprefents it in the natural fize. 



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